“You shouldn’t call video game genres [thing]likes because” buddy, it’s a natural transitional state. Lots of video game genres started out being named after their most notable entry or entries. FPSes used to be called “Doom clones” before evolving their own terminology. Some genres never do, and people just forget about the original game and keep the name. How many roguelike fans are familiar with Rogue? How many adventure game fans even know the genre is named after a game called Adventure?
False cognate, I’m afraid. The term “adventure game” originated in the 1970s to describe the various imitators of a specific piece of parser-driven interactive fiction called Colossal Cave Adventure, whose title was often abbreviated simply to Adventure to save space. That’s why the term “adventure game” is particularly associated with point-and-click hidden object games with complex inventory puzzles (i.e., because they’re graphical Adventure-likes), and why parser-driven interactive fiction games are often informally called “text adventures” (i.e., to distinguish them from Adventure-likes with graphics).
Also for what it’s worth, “[thing]like” is so much more pleasant to read fifty thousand times than the many combinations of:
base building
open-world
survival
PvP
PvE
crafting
resource management
With deckbuilding elements
Deck Building: the Deck-Building Deck Building Game, where you build a deck
as for action-adventure, that largely stems from how early Nintendo games would be categorized as “adventure” games if they took place in a continuous world rather than a series of discrete levels, e.g. the original Legend of Zelda. eventually, “action-” was appended to the front in order to differentiate the lineage from text-based and graphical/point-and-click adventure games.
(also note that the usage of “action-adventure” was, for a while, also in a transitional phase where some people used it, some people didn’t, and others used it inconsistently, or with a different interpretation of exactly what it meant, throughout the 2010s, like many transitional phases of language)
i’ll hold firm that the genre “roguelikes” should be reserved for turn-based top-down RPGs where death is permanent and each run is entirely new (Caves of Qud, DCSS, Nethack, ToME, etc.) and “roguelites” should be for games that step outside the core genre concept and simply have perma-death, often with incremental bonuses between runs. alternately, rename “roguelites” to “hadeslikes”
The only problem with doing that is that despite hades being very high quality and wildly popular, it was made well after the rouguelite genre became popular and widely recognized.
If anything, rouguelites should be named for the Binding of Isaac.
If we’re gonna be very pedantic, the precision puzzle platformer was initially popularised outside of Flash-game circles by Super Meat Boy (2010), which was in turn derivative of Maddy Thorson’s Jumper (2004) – yes, the same Maddy Thorson who later made Celeste. This means a.Celeste didn’t popularise the genre, it merely took back the crown; and b. if any sort of [thing]like title is warranted, our choices are either jumplikes or meatlikes – neither of them great options!
I’m convinced if ppl on this site knew how crappy gifs look before you color them properly, they would appreciate editors more
for context reasons, this is how a gif I used in a recent gifset looks like without any adjustments/coloring whatsoever:
and here it is afterwards:
I truly don’t think people realize how dingy and dark most movies and tv shows actually are so they can’t appreciate the work and skill it takes to make gifs look the way your brain “remembers” it looking.
Another before and after example:
This gif needed 6 different adjustment layers, not including the sharpening process, which is its own separate challenge. The blue window was also changed to green to keep the palette more consistent and to reduce the range of colors needed, because a wider range of colors generally results in worse gif quality since gifs only support a max of 256 (compared to the millions your monitor can display).
yeah…
I was already going to reblog this because gifmakers need all the love, but the little lambie made sure that I was definitely going to do it.
dark scenes are truly the bane of every gifmaker’s soul
The ecosystem of tumblr fandom relies on gif makers - put some respect on their names!!
The Standing Rock reservation has an astonishing wealth of fossil remains, and a relatively young paleontology program, but not much in the way of resources. Here’s the program’s Get Involved page, and here’s a really cool video talking about the subject from PBS’s Prehistoric Road Trip, if you have six minutes to spare.
made a small (SMALL) pot of coffee but did it on auto pilot and used the usual amount of scoops (enough for a full pot) (pot is family sized) and the concoction I’ve brought into existance can no longer be considered coffee. it is dark enough to show Narcissus his reflection. Boss music pours from the spout. four shots of adrenaline housed in the confines of an 8oz mug. my Palpitation Potion, if you will. if this beast takes me out know I died by no means but my own hubris like god intended.
hate when i make a joke on a post and then look at the tags and everyone else is making the same joke it feels like op is a retail employee and im a customer. im sorry. you should kill me
The Standing Rock reservation has an astonishing wealth of fossil remains, and a relatively young paleontology program, but not much in the way of resources. Here’s the program’s Get Involved page, and here’s a really cool video talking about the subject from PBS’s Prehistoric Road Trip, if you have six minutes to spare.
Shoutout to the two coworkers today who casually announced that they were voting for Trump, then asked me who I was voting for. I told them “I did early voting, and I voted for the candidate who isn’t going to make it harder for me to exist as a trans person” and both of these women had to awkwardly try and assure me that it wasn’t personal, and it’s not like they hated Harris or anything, they actually do like some things about her, and they definitely don’t hate me, of course not, it’s just that, you know, well, it’s like, well, you know, it’s just, like, and no matter how many times they tried to pass the shovel off to me, I just let them hold onto it
What. (and I mean this from the bottom of my enraged heart) the FUCK
Sadly, a lot of my co-workers are under-informed Trump supporters.
You know the kind, they just have a very surface level understanding of him as a candidate or person. They don’t really care about the actual concepts of policies he’s suggesting or the overt racism/sexism/everythingism he flaunts. They’ve just decided there’s something they like about him that makes him worthy of their vote and they choose to ignore anything they don’t like.
Not indoctrinated, just poorly informed. Not brainwashed, just kind of uncaring. Not part of the cult, just following it from the sidelines.
A conversation I had with one of these women today:
“Jonah, do you know how a tariff works?”
“In, like, very broad, general terms, yes. Why? Do you need it explained?”
“I was reading something yesterday about it, and I’m not sure if it was right. The article was saying we pay it?”
“Yes, that’s how a tariff works. It’s a tax on imported goods.”
“Okay, but that’s a good thing, right?”
“If you’re trying to discourage foreign trade, yeah. Or pull in more money for the government.”
“But how do we pay for it?”
“Uh. We don’t pay for it directly. The company that imports pays the tariff, and then they usually raise the prices on their own shit to make up for the loss.”
“But that’s going to make shit more expensive. Tariffs are supposed to make shit cheaper.”
“They’re not. They’re supposed to make imported shit more expensive. They’re supposed to discourage imports.”
“I don’t understand this. This was gonna help the economy.”
“Well, it might help some parts of the economy, but I don’t think you’re involved in any of them, so you may not see any of the benefits of the tariffs.”
“Okay so. I thought China was supposed to pay them.”
“Remember during his first term, when there was all that talk about a big, beautiful wall that Mexico was gonna–”
“Okay, look–”
“No no, hear me out. Remember how there was going to be a big beautiful wall that Mexico was going to pay for? China is going to pay the tariffs in the same way that Mexico paid for the border wall.”
OP, I don’t know how you managed to keep a straight face when letting them figure out they fucked up. I avoided someone today who’s an immigrant but anti-immigrant because I knew I’d have no chill.
just saw a post where someone put “detrans dni” and like… hey we should be supporting detransitioned people bc if we don’t terfs will
sometimes you’re wrong about your identity and that’s ok like i used to think i was bi but it turns out i was wrong and i know ppl who thought they were trans but it turns out they were wrong and it should be ok and accepted that sometimes people don’t get it right on the first try
There’s nothing wrong realizing you weren’t trans I love all y’all
Okay, so you’ve picked up Marx, maybe dabbled in communism, and now you’re all fired up about revolution. 👏 But before you dive in too deep and start calling yourself a “tankie” (or whatever’s trending these days), can I suggest something real quick? Read Animal Farm. 👀
I know, everyone knows Animal Farm, right? But honestly, I’m not sure how many of you have actually read it—and I mean really read it. Animal Farm isn’t just some cute little farm story with talking animals. It’s Orwell’s warning about why communism doesn’t work—and why it never will. 🐷➡️👨🌾
The animals overthrow their human oppressors, right? They’re all about equality—everyone is equal. But by the end, the pigs are walking on two legs, living in the house, and looking just like the humans they kicked out. That’s the point. The revolution gets corrupted, the leaders become just as bad as the ones they replaced, and the whole system falls apart. No matter how good the intentions are, when power’s involved, it all falls into the same mess. 😬
You’ve probably seen people online talking about how communism is the future, how it’s this radical change we all need. But let’s be real: look at the countries closest to communism today—North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. Does that seem like the kind of world you wanna live in? Is that freedom? Is that happiness? Are those societies thriving? Because from where I’m standing, it’s more like a dystopia. 👀
So before you put that hammer and sickle in your bio, give Animal Farm another read. It’s not just a book—it’s history. It’s a cautionary tale that shows us why it doesn’t work and why it never will. We need new ideas, fresh thinking. Use that brainpower you’re flexing for change to build something that actually works. 💡🔥
Stop identifying with the same old ideologies that have been proven to fail, and start building something better. The future’s waiting for you. ✌️🌍
We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like
Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.
take off your glasses if you wear them for 20 seconds
Recommended by my optometrist
Look at something 20 feet away, then 10, then 5, then one, then if you can your nose.
Repeat twice, then again without glasses.
Face forward look out of the corner of your eye. As far as you can look. Slowly move to the other corner. Repeat twice.
Look down as far as you can. Slowly look up. Repeat twice.
Roll eyes twice.
Close eyes for five minutes.
I do this every day usually at my halfway point. My migraines went away. My vision go better. Honestly stretching my eyes as she put it feels great too.
Gritty sci-fi webcomic where partway through the third major arc the protagonists get trapped in some sort of utopian false reality by a mysterious godlike being, except they never escape and the comic just changes genres to quirky coffee-shop slice of life until it’s unceremoniously cancelled six years later.
Oh like the Riverdale TV series
Strictly speaking, the Riverdale version is an audience fakeout – it initially appears as though the gang is trapped in an idyllic false reality, but after a couple of episodes it’s revealed that everything is real and the gang just got sent back in time; the show’s framing later returns to the present just in time for the last of them to die of old age.
I… what? The fuck even was that show holy shit. That happened??? In “sexy edgy teen drama Archie”?
Maybe i should watch more tv…
Yeah, they all go back in time in an apparent excuse for the writers to spend a season doing a pastiche of the original Archie comics from the 1950s, though this is soon derailed by a Cold War spy drama subplot involving a sinister milkman, and then the show just ends.
There once was a man trying to make a point about the kitchen. “The sink!” He said “the sink is the single most important thing in the kitchen! It washes, it provides drinking water! It helps you prepare all of your meals and cleans your dishes for you after! The sink is the most important!”
“However,” said a stranger coming through the crowd “you are forgetting about the countertop. It holds everything in the kitchen together. You prepare your food and serve your food ON the countertop. Even your prescious sink would have no where to be if it weren’t for the countertop!”
The man was stunned. He wasn’t prepared for a counterargument
I wrote this joke in a sleep deprived rage and its one of the best pieces of writing I have ever produced
I told this joke to my sister and she said “I need some time to let that sink in.”
Hi, OP here. Quick favor? Could you high five your sister for me? Thanks
They’re also meant for hiltops, not small rooms. Cant get the right reverb with all that echo.
they’re also meant to make you fight the english. don’t forget that part.
My fav bagpipe player was a dude who would go out to the middle of a soccer field near my college apartment on Sunday. No one was using the field and he’d just be out there playing his heart out and the sound were just spread out over the plains. I’d be working on art for class so I’d open the window and listen.
I still have fond memories of the day a kid biked up to the edge of the field, ran over to the bagpiper and the music stopped for a moment and as they talked. I couldn’t hear it but I had assumed the worst, that someone had decided to tell him to stop playing. Instead after the pause the musician seemed to nod, readjusted his bagpipes and started belting out the Star Wars theme.
Holyshit that is the most interesting thing I’ve heard in awhile
Holy shit yes
just to add that there are many kinds of bagpipes from England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, and other countries that are specifically made for indoor playing and are soft and melodic, as well as all the outdoor pipes like the Scottish, Spanish, French, and many from the Balkans, Italy, Greece, central and Eastern Europe and so on - tumblr won’t let me post YouTube links here for some reason but search there for smallpipes, parlour pipes, border pipes, uilleann pipes, for some gentle examples - also for the love of the gods check out Cristina Pato, gorgeous and talented Spanish piper
Remember this viral post? Wanda and Jamal and her husband Lonnie are the most wholesome people, this story brought tears to my eyes originally and I am crying once more learning from Jamal’s social media that Lonnie has sadly passed away.
Rest in Peace, Lonnie :(
Whenever I lose faith in humanity, I remember these four lovely folks and feel a little better 🥺
German company Kärcher has used its high-powered pressure washers to create an enormous Godzilla on the Iwaya Kawauchi Dam in Saga Prefecture, Japan, to celebrate the dam’s 50th anniversary. Godzilla will remain on the wall for 2 to 3 months.
I get how the whole “listening to music as a dick-measuring contest for who can listen to the most obscure band” thing can get grating sometimes but I don’t think people realize just how vital that phenomenon is for new up and coming bands to get a foot in the door. it’s understandable to be annoyed by hipsterism but unless you want all music to be industry plants and former child stars you’re just going to have to accept it as part of the social ecosystem.
most of your friends probably won’t go around hyping up your amateurish self-released bandcamp project, but you know who will? the most insufferable hipster jackass you’ll ever meet.
[your best friend playing your music in front of someone else]: yeah haha this is my friend’s band… i know it’s kinda weird and rough around the edges but i’m kinda into it… if you’re not tho i’ll turn it off.
[pretentious music guy you’ve never met before playing your music in front of someone else]: yeah so i found this on bandcamp and it completely blew me away, no one is making music like this today, it’s so raw and experimental and interesting, i can’t believe they only have 3 listeners on spotify, they’re brilliant, frankly if you don’t like this music you should kill yourself,
I think the straight up worst take on gender abolitionism by far is like “in the gender abolitionist utopia nobody would feel the need to transition medically”
Fuck you. That’s completely backwards. True gender abolition can’t be achieved without total bodily autonomy and genuine freedom to have whichever bodies we want.
The suggested “utopia” here is just a cisnormative one where you’re not allowed to accurately name it as such.
